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From: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: false positives on disk change checks
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 02:27:53 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020201102753.90799.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)

I wrote:

> I don't know the original posters problem, but I suspect I see something
> similar. On a to be embedded system with a Geode (Cyrix) CPU and with a
> ATA compatible CompactFlash drive I get the following messages on 
> bootup:
> 
> invalidate: busy buffer
> VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
> 
> This seems to happen while the system tries to remount the root fs rw.

The following patch works around the problem for me:

diff -ruN linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
linux-scorpio/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
--- linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c       Mon Nov 26 14:29:17 2001
+++ linux-scorpio/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c       Fri Feb  1 12:06:59 2002
@@ -154,11 +154,14 @@
                return;
        }

+#if 0
        /*
         * Not an ATAPI device: looks like a "regular" hard disk
         */
        if (id->config & (1<<7))
                drive->removable = 1;
+#endif
+
        /*
         * Prevent long system lockup probing later for non-existant
         * slave drive if the hwif is actually a flash memory card of some
variety:

It's obviously not a general solution but I know for sure that
the flashdisk is not removable in our setup.

Regards
  Joerg

=====
-- 
Regards
       Joerg


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             reply	other threads:[~2002-02-01 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 10:27 Joerg Pommnitz [this message]
2002-02-01 11:12 ` Andre Hedrick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-01 17:33 Kris Urquhart
2002-02-01  9:33 Joerg Pommnitz
2002-01-31 23:46 PROBLEM: ext2/mount - multiple mounts corrupts inodes Kris Urquhart
2002-02-01  2:14 ` false positives on disk change checks Alexander Viro
2002-02-01 11:06   ` Andre Hedrick

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